Adding clean URLS for the users profile page

There is nothing like sending a user to profile/44444-55555-6666-7777 or any page in our application. In this recipe, I will add some slugs to the user profile page.

Note

Slug? Semantic URL

Semantic URLs, also sometimes referred to as clean URLs, RESTful URLs, user-friendly URLs, or search engine-friendly URLs…

Refer to Wikipedia for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL and see an example slug in that URL.

Getting ready

A fresh install of Laravel can work for you with a database for making users for whom you can add a Slug.

How to do it…

  1. Install the needed library from https://packagist.org/packages/spatie/laravel-sluggable:
    >composer require spatie/laravel-sluggable
  2. Update the database ...

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